@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 1 month agoItch drama is getting reallemmy.mlmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1850
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•1 month agoCould Mauritius choose to keep .io? The income it would bring in would probably be bigger than their GDP.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 month agoYes. That’s not what the regulation says, but exceptions are made all the time.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 month agoYeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoBut why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 month agoHalf grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent. ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.
Could Mauritius choose to keep .io? The income it would bring in would probably be bigger than their GDP.
Yes. That’s not what the regulation says, but exceptions are made all the time.
Nope. They already have .mu
Yeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io
ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO
But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.
ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.